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Sunday, April 6, 2003
Buy George vs. Bye George 
| | I agree with them both, by the way. |
SSO
| | I've been party to some exciting developments over the last few weeks at Jabber. Some revisions in their reference client (Exodus), and some minor tweaks on the server, have yielded some awesome portal-friendly features for single sign-on in the Jabber infrastructure. You can now log on just once to a web-based portal, click a link at the site, and launch a Jabber client which logs in to a Jabber account of the same name on the same server. Additional instructions can be embedded therein, including specific chat windows to open, etc. |
| | Disclaimer: I'm on both the Jabber Inc. and PingID advisory boards. |
Wanted: DIY solution stories
| | Okay, I'm close to wrapping a feature for Linux Journal about how smart companies make themselves smarter with Linux, LAMP and related free & open infrastructural code. There's a lot of that being used, and not much being written about it — at least not from the angle I'm exploring. |
| | What I need now is quotage from the vendor- and consultant-free zone that comprises the DIY (Do It Yourself) side of enterprise-building today. |
| | I want to be clear: this is not an anti-vendor or an anti-consultant feature. Rather it's about techies who roll their own "solutions" to their own problems. Vendors and consultants have sales and PR departments. I hear plenty from them, and I've got them covered. Now I just need to hear a little more from the DIY-ers. |
| | If you're in that category, and have a story to tell, write me at doc@ssc.com. Thanks. |
Moxie comes unwired
| | Oh shit, I thought. Now what? Can it get anay worse? |
| | I go and borrow cash and head to the nearest computer store. My computer has a wireless modem. Hopefully that still works. |
| | I buy what seems like a practical choice. A Microshaft wireless @#$%^% router. The cheapest one on the shelf after a rebate and compatible with Windows 2000...see it says so right on the box. |
| | So I get home, sweating because I'm communicating with a few people about a job. Read the instructions, which is something I NEVER do. Follow them by the letter...also something I never do. Twenty-five pages into the instructions it says the router doesn't work well with Windows 2000. Now I'm sweating and shaking. Forced internet withdrawal isn't pretty. |
| | Nothing. Doesn't work. Sit on hold waiting for tech support. 40 minutes pass. The bitch gets on the line and tells me I need to talk to the manufacturer of my laptop, that it's not microsoft's problem. |
| | I call the manufacturer of my laptop, wait another 30 minutes to get someone on the phone and they say I need to get online to update my crappy Windows 2000 OS because microsoft sucks. I tell them I can't because my cat destroyed my conventional means of doing so. I cry. I curse. I fling myself on my bed. |
| | 10 hours later, I've tried again. Retried, cried, flung myself on the bed and repeated dozens of times. |
| | This morning I woke up, I put the piece of shit back in the box and drive back over to the store to return the mother f&cker. |
| | Ah, but the story ends with a happy beginning: |
| | I exchange it for a NetGear Wireless router and within 15 minutes and no tech support calls it was up and running. |
| | The good news is, I can now blog from the john if it should so please me. But if I do, I'll keep that information to myself. |
| | Now I'm off for a well deserved beer. But if have to relieve myself and have something to say at the same time...nothing can stop me now. |
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